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Newton. According to the Latin epitaph, into which the Greek word philanthropsia is incongruously introduced, Conduitt, who had been Master of the Mint for ten or twelve years, left an only daughter, who married Lord Lymington. So that the name and its spelling could not have been perpetuated by that lady. I have been told that there was in the last century a Master of the Fruiterers' Company of London bearing the name spelt also with two t's. Can any of your readers identify the beautiful Mrs. Conduitt " or throw any light on her family ? L. G. R.

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S.v. Th' office of the Ewery," John Penne, "Yoman for the King's mouth."

S.v. "Th' office of the Pulterie," Thomas Laurence, Yoman, and Thomas Gardyner, Grome, both "for the King's mouthe."

See A Collection of Ordinances and Regulations for the Government of the Royal Household....from King Edward III. to King William and Queen Mary,' Printed

2. I should be glad to know the author of the for the Society of Antiquaries by John following lines, and where they appear :

Say not good-night, but in some brighter clime Bid me good-morn. MOLLOID.

3. Can any of your readers supply the name of the author and the poem in which occur the lines beginning:

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Blest be the man who first invented sleep,
So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.

I have searched several Dictionaries of Quotations
and the like without success.
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Nichols, 1790, pp. *20-*22.

In this collection is the 'Liber Niger Domus Regis Edw. IV.' (in Bibl. Harl., No. 642, fol. 1-196), from which may be gathered some of the duties of the Yeomen of the Mouth. The pages refer to the collection:

S.v. "Office of Bakehouse,"

"One yoman in this office for the Kinge's mouthe, recevyng the mayne floure of the Sergeaunt, by tayle, and woode to bake with the mayne chete, and payne demayne; and alwey ii loves of these to wey a chete lofe. He hath also sakkes, lethyr, bagges, canvas, candylles, bulters, berme, and all other necessaries of the Sergeaunt by controlment."-Pp. 69, 70.

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"The Buttler for the mouthe delyverythe nyghtly, at the buttrey barre, for the Kinge for all nyght: with the ale in newe asshen cuppes; and twoe other for the watche."-P. 78.

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"Office of Confectionarye,"

"One yeoman to be both for the mouthe and for the halle in tyme of neede, and chambre; to be well learned in the makinge of confections, plates, garde quinces, and others, safely and cleanely to keepe, and honestly to minister it forthe at all tymes of the Kinge's worship; and to make trewe awnswere thereof by weyghtes inward and outward, and soe to briefe it; and be redye to shewe the remanentes, as the clerkes woll calle to undyrstand this office. This yeoman taketh his wages, and clothinge, and other dewties in this courte, like the yeoman of pantry, but noe 'fees; and if he be busye in working spices, then he hathe his breade, mete, and drinke, for hym and his felloweship, into this office, by commandment of the counting-house."-P. 81. 8.V. "The Office of Ewary and Napery,"

"One yeoman in this office for the Kinge's mouthe, to serve hym in the absence of the serjeaunt, and to serve the chambre, and saufely to keepe the naperye and other stuffe of the Ewyre, as well the plate as the clothes, to the smallest sorte, with all that belongeth thereto; to beare the chaufyrs with water; and, in tyme of the yeare, to see it hotte, after the olde custome; and to be dyligent and obedyent to the preceptes of the ussher of the chambre that occupieth for that tyme. This yeoman or sergeaunt, in the wynter season, shall sette one torche or torches at the chaundery, to serve the Kinge and his chambre; and to beare the stuffe saufelye in and oute of this office; takinge in suche season a lighte of the groome porter of the chambre, for the ewry-bourde. This yeoman eteth in the halle at one meale; takinge wages and clothinge, and other guiftes generall, like to the yeoman of the pantrey. It hathe bene accustomed, that he, or the groome for the mouthe, moste parte keepe and make awnswere for alle suche plate and clothes, and other stuffe, as the Kinge and his chambre is served with all."-P. 84.

In Edward Chamberlayne's 'Present State of England,' 1684, in the account "Of the Civil Government of the Kings Court," is the following (p. 155) :—

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"In the Cellar, a Sergeant, John FlockEsquire, Sergeant of the Cellar, who is also Sergeant of the Buttery, and Pitcher-house, and Gentleman, Richard Dalton. And is also eldest Yeoman of the mouth. His Office is to fill and taste his Majesties Wine at the sideboard, and is the only Officer of that kind attending on

the Kings Person.'

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

MAULE (12 S. v. 236).—In years preceding 1820 the Rev. John Maule, A.M., was rector of Horse Heath, Cambridgeshire, and chaplain of Greenwich Hospital.

W. B. H.

'THE TRAGEDY OF NERO' AND 'PISO's CONSPIRACY' (12 S. v. 254, 299).—MR. NICOLL'S remarks are based on a misunderstanding. The Tragedy of Nero' mentioned by Langhaine is not Lee's but the anonymous play that was first published in 1624 and is, or ought to be, well known. It was issued again in 1633. There is a manuscript of it in the Egerton Collection in the British Museum; Charles Lamb took & speech of Petronius in Act III. for his Specimens.' EDWARD BENSLY.

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(Gyronny or and az., an inescutcheon gu.)
was changed for the "modern shield
(Or, a lion rampant sa.).

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Boutell, in his 'Heraldry: Historical and Popular,' 1864, gives p. 159, the arms of Flanders (Or, a lion rampant sa.), quartered with the very similar coat of Holland (Or, a lion rampant gu.), an early example, as he says, of compound quartering (that is, without the usual pourfilar, or dividing lines)-which shield Philippa of Hainault, Queen of our Edward III., quartered with that of her royal husband-the whole being borne in "small a shield exquisitely carved in alabaster " existing upon the south side of the monument to Queen Philippa herself in Westminster Abbey.

As neither Mr. Boutell nor the late Dr.

Woodward in his valuable work, ‘Heraldry : British and Foreign' (1896), who also deals with this subject, mentions any other arms attributable to Flanders but the above rampant lion, and as this bearing cannot be considered a very modern one, may I ask MR. HALL if he will kindly give his authority for the statement that this gyronny coat was ever the “ ancient shield of Flanders " ? J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.

Woodward and Burnet, 'Brit. and For. Her.,' make many allusions to the arms of This coat Flanders, D'or au lion de sable. was used at such an early date that it would seem to preclude any more ancient coat, for instance (p. 462): 66 'About 1300 Louis Count of Nevers, son of Robert de Béthune. Count of Flanders. by Yolante, daughter of Eudes of Burgundy bore on his secretum

Burgundy-ancient and Flanders, Or a lion rampant Sable." It is very strange if there be an ancient coat of Flanders it is not mentioned. The learned authors apparently knew no other. On the other hand, Burke, Gen. Arm.' gives the gyronny coat. J. HARVEY BLOOM.

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COURT OF ST. JAMES (12 S. v. 265).-The was proved in London on April 22, 1583, by above term dates from about 1697, when Edmund Barker, notary public, proctor for Whitehall was burned. The following ex- John Warnford, the executor (P.C.C.,! tract is from Timbs's Curiosities of 21 Rowe). She thereby desired to be buried London':in Highworth Church, "where the Warnefords lie.' Their chantry there is mentioned in The National Gazetteer' (Virtue & Co., 1868), ii. 264.

"On December 18, 1688, William, Prince of Orange, came to St. James's, where, three days afterwards, the peers assembled, and the household and other officers of the abdicated sovereign laid down their badges. Evelyn says: All the world goes to see the Prince at St. James's, where there is a greate court. There I saw him: he is very stately, serious and reserved' ('Diary,' vol. i. p. 680). King William occasionally held councils here: but it was not until after the burning of Whitehall, in 1697, that this Palace became used for state ceremonies, whence dates the Court of St. James's."

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

The phrase is said to date from the burning of Whitehall in the reign of William III., when St. James's became the royal residence. St. James's was once a part of the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, London. "In the reign of Queen Anne it had acquired the distinction of the Court quarter "Familiar Allusions,' by Wheeler, Chatto & Windus, 1882.)

A. M.

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According to some notes which I have of the will, the testatrix mentioned, amongst other persons, her sisters Pates and Marden, and her daughters Hinton, Baynard, and Loveden; also her four sons, John (the executor), Richard, Thomas, and Oliver. John had a family of at least eight children (Thomas, Anthony, John, William, Susan, Mary, Elizabeth, and Anne); and Richard had a daughter Susan, godchild to her grandmother, the testatrix. The will contains indications that the family had prospered by breeding sheep.

Richard's younger brother Oliver became & Winchester Scholar in 1569. Lancelot Warnford of Highworth, the Scholar of 1601, was presumably of the same family. In the D.Ñ.B.' (lix. 378) there is a biography of William Warford, alias Warneford and Walford, the Jesuit, who was born (so it is RICHENDA: ORIGIN OF THE NAME (12 S. said) at Bristol in 1560, and who published v. 237). Richenda is apparently a feminine his books under the name of George. form of Richard. The nearest approach Doulye." He was not, so far as I know, of I have found to it in Miss Yonge's History the same family as Richard Warnford.

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of Christian Names' is Richenza other
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variants there given are Richarda, Richila,
Richilde and Riciburga. The earlier forms
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Teutonic Richer,
Rechiarius, and Riquier; while the prefix
portion of the name acts as a suffix in such
forms as Erik, Hendrik, Theodoric, Osric,
Ulrica, &c.

N. W. HILL.

RICHARD WARNFORD (12 S. v. 266).-This

Winchester Scholar of 1560, one of seventeen boys who took the Scholar's oath here in the cloisters on Aug. 23, 1562, was a son of John Warnford of Sevenhampton or Sennington, a tything in the parish of Highworth, Wilts, by his marriage with Susan, daughter of John Yate of Lyford, Berks. Their eldest son, John Warnford, was Sheriff of Wilts in 1590-1. See the Warnford pedigree in 'Visitations of Hampshire (Harleian Soc., vol. lxiv., p. 191); and 'Warneford, late of Warneford Place (Sevenhampton) in Burke's Landed Gentry' (1914), p. 1966. See also Yate of Buckland,' and 'Warneford, of Buckland,' in 'Visitations of Berkshire' ('Harleian Soc.,' vol. lvi., pp. 60, 302). The will, dated Feb. 1, 25 Eliz., of Richard's mother, Susan Warnford, widow,

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Richard was admitted Fellow of New College, Oxford, after the usual two years' probation as Scholar, on Sept. 3, 1565, but vacated without taking a degree. He became a member of the Inner Temple in 1567, his brother John having joined that Inn in 1561. Richard is mentioned in the 'Victoria History of Hants,' ii. 86, as a recusant who in 1590 was "in arrears for his

non-churchgoing fines to the extent of

1,540l.'

Winchester College.

H. C.

I should have added to my query at the above reference that the recusant was committed to the Wood Street Counter in London June 12 or 22, 1586, and was still there on Nov. 30. At the end of 1595, he was in the Fleet for having heard Mass and neglected to pay his fine. His wife Mary was sent to the Wood Street Counter June 13, 1586, but discharged thence June 15. Mary and Elizabeth Warnford were committed to the Fleet Prison in 1591 and were still there at the end of 1595. (See Cath. Rec. Soc., vol. ii. passim.)

Oliver Warneford, Winchester Scholar, of 1569, from Shenington (Kirby, 'Winchester Scholars,' p. 142), is probably the person

referred to by the spy Nicholas Berden, who makes mention, May 15, 1586,[of

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certen speches uttered by one Oliver Warneford, gentillman of Hampshire, whoe broke pryson out of Wynchester, viz. that they would relese the yerle [of Arundel] & others then in the Tower, or ells they woulde shed moch warm blod for yt." See Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ., xxi. 88. This volume contains many interesting_details about other Wykehamists, e.g., Dr. Edward Atslow and Anthony Twichenor or Tuchenor, as to the latter of whom see 11 S. xii. 340, 388, 430, 505.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

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CHESS: THE KNIGHT'S TOUR: ANOTHER METHOD (12 S. v. 92, 136).-This method although based upon the cross, diamond, square principle differs from Dr. Roget's in the rule prescribed to effect the same end. I am doubtful at present of its validity in all specific cases. I have before me an instance of its successful application where the starting point is White's QR square and terminal White's K B square. The course is as follows. The Knight goes first twice round the board covering 24 of the border squares as distinguished from the 16 central ones. He then covers 8 of these 16, the last being White's Q3. He then passes by way of White's KB 2 to White's K R square, makes a third round on the border squares, entering the central ones again at White's K 3; completes the Occupation of these, passing to White's KR 2 by way of K B 3; finally goes round the border squares for the fourth time and Tests on White's K B square.

Following this idea, I achieved the following results. My starting point is Black's QKn 4 and terminal Black's K Kn 4. The result coincides exactly with the keyboard's configurations of the squares and diamonds and crosses, although in the course of the tour these are apparently discarded by breaking away from system to another before completing the former, as the prescribed rule necessitates.

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Amphlett.-Cf. "Amfleet," suffix fleet, meaning a Devey.-1. French De Vey or De Vay, the ford.

2. A variant of Davey, Anglo-Hebrew for David. Eykyn.- Variant of Aikin, a Saxon personal name, Acen, apparently Oaken, O.E. Acen. Also the Gitting or Gettins. From the Celtic Gaitken, son or Adam, diminutive Adkin Gaitkin, straight. Nock.-At the oak, from residence beside the oak tree. Similar to Noakes, Noke, Noack, Nocke. ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

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a variant of Noak, a contraction of atten oak (at the oak).

Eykyn, the Scotch Aikin, is A.-S. acen, oaken.

Amphlett has, I think, the double diminutive -lett, as in Hewlett (Hew, or Hugh-el-lot); and may be a Welsh contracted form of Humphry, viz., Humphlett, with loss of the aspirate. N. W. HILL.

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Prof. Ernest Weekley, in 'The Romance of Names,' at p. 161, derives Crowther from the archaic crowd or crowth, a fiddle, and points out that "the fiddler in 'Hudibras' is called Crowdero."

At. p. 212 he says: Devey and Dombey

seem to be the diminutive forms of deaf and dumb, which are still used in dialect in reference to persons thus afflicted."

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

If your correspondent has not already done so, he might refer with advantage to that informative and reliable repertory, Canon Bardsley's 'Dictionary of Surnames,' issued by the Oxford Press.

W. JAGGARD, Capt. Repatriation Records Registry, Winchester. [A. M. also thanked for reply]

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ANTHONY TODD, SECRETARY G.P.O. (12 S. iv. 11, 114; v. 104, 164).—The following occurs in a London newspaper (name at present unknown) :—

"On Wednesday January 9th, 1782, as Anthony Todd, Esq., Secretary to the Post Office, was going home in his carriage to his house at Walthamstow, Essex, and another gentleman with him, he was stopped by two highwaymen, one of whom presented a pistol to the Coachman's breast, whilst the other with a handkerchief over his face. robbed Mr. Todd, and the other gentleman of their gold watches."

J. W. FAWCETT.

CHARLES I.: HIS JOURNEY FROM OXFORD TO SOUTHWELL (12 S. v. 182).-An account of the route taken is given in East Anglia and the Great Civil War,' by A. Kingston, pp. 224-32. Charles left Oxford at three o'clock in the morning, April 27, 1646, and travelled towards London. He then turned to Harrow-on-the-Hill and Barnet. Passing through St. Albans he lodged the night at Wheathampstead, probably at Lamer Park, the seat of Sir John Garrard. From thence he went through Stevenage, Graveley, Baldock, Royston to Newmarket and stayed at an inn probably at Bottisham. The next stage of the journey was by way of Brandon to Downham in Norfolk, where he lodged

at The Swan. On May 2 the King went to Crimplesham, a mile away, and disguised himself as a clergyman, and Dr. Hudson, (who had been to Southwell) rejoined him. The party_then resumed their journey to Southrie, Ely, Erith, Stukely (Hunts) tothe village of Coppingford near Stilton, where they spent Saturday night and part of Sunday, May 3. The next place Charles stayed at, Sunday night, was Stamford,. either at the house of Mr. Cave or Mr. Wolph. On Monday by travelling all day until eleven o'clock at night they reached. Southwell and came to the Scots army before Newark on Tuesday morning, May 5,. after a strange pilgrimage of nine days ever at the risk of being discovered. G. H. W.

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DAVID, "EPISCOPUS RECREENSIS (12 S. v. 238). This prelate is mentioned in Bishop Stubbs' Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum 195) as (2nd edn., Oxford, 1897, p. suffragan of York," and as pontificating as such in 1316 and 1317. But the name of his see is not explained. He does not seem to be mentioned by either Gams or Eubel. None of the Irish bishops, employed as 'suffragans in England, bears a name · anything 66 like Recreensis (Stubbs, pp. 204-9). W. A. B. C. "ARGYLES OR GRAVY-POTS (12 S. v. 154,. 219, 248).-We have had a plated "Argyle in our family for a great number of years. was in use constantly during my grandfather's lifetime, and was believed to have been inherited by him from his father. I have not papers at hand to show the dates of our grandfather's birth and death, but he was not very young when married in 1794. so that the Argyle my brother (Rev, S. C. Sharland, Sedbergh) now possesses is

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